Grace Hopper was born with an incredible desire to know how things worked. When she was seven, she dismantled every clock in the house. Eventually she earned adoctorate in mathematics at Yale University. During World War II, she joined the Navyand was assigned to its computer project at Harvard. There she met Harvard Mark I, the first fully functional, digital computing machine.
Unlike the clocks in her childhood home, this had 750,000 parts and 500 miles of wire! Most experts thought it was too complicated and expensive for anybody other than ‘experts’. But not Grace Hopper! Her goal was to understand it, then make it so simple that anybody could use it.
As late as 1963, when each big computer still had its own unique master language, Grace decided that they should all be programmed to speak the same one. She envisioned a day when computers would be small enough to sit on a desk, more powerful than Harvard Mark I, and be used in offices, schools and homes, by people as young as nine and as old as 90! At 79 she retired from the Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral. But more importantly, she lived to help make her dream of personal computers come true!
“Your old men [and women] will dream dreams, your young men [and women] will see visions” (Joel 2:28 NIV). God is a ‘creator’. The creative idea within you came from Him. So, believe in it. Nurture it. Step out in faith and fulfil it!
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